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CORSET.

Patented Peb. 6,1883.

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y 'UNITED STATES ATENT FFICFO l MORRIS BRAY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T I. NEWMAN 8E CO., vOF SAME PLACE.

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t `PaPlCL'EIC A'.IIOII forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,780, dated February 6, 1883.

Application filed November 4, 1882. (No model.)

. To all whom it may concern Be it known that-I, Monats P. BRAY, of New Haven, in the county ot' New Haven and State `of Connecticut, have invented new Im- 5 provements in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and io which said drawings constitute part of this specilication., and represent, in- Figure l, an outside View ofthe rear edge of a corset 5 Fig. 2, the reverse side of the saine; Figs. 3 and/I, transverse sections illustrating the construction.

This invention relates to an improvement ip corsets, with special reference to the back or eyelet section, the object being to stay or 'stiften the rear edge ot the corset, and so as .2o to avoid the use oi' a heavy steel stay 5 and the invention consists in the construction, as hereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claims.

In Fig. 3, t represents the thickness from z5 which the rear section is to be made, it being substantially twice the width or size of that section, and to b e doubled at the point b. On-

to this material or part, and before it is doubled,

I place a broad stay, c, of buckram `or other' 3o stift'euing fabric, in width substantially that of the usual broad back stay.4 I arrange one .edge of this stay on the line b, where the doubling of the section is to be made, and about Y midway of the stay c, as at d, I Arun a line of stitches through both the stay and the single thickness of the section, the line ot' stitches being parallel with the edge of the stay, as seen in Fig. 2. I then double the section by folding the part outside the edge of the stay at b 4o over the other side of the stay, as'seen in Fig. 4, and then run aline of stitches through both thicknesses of the fabric at the opposite edge ofthe stay, as at e. Thus it will be seen that the line of stitches d. will appearonly on one side, as seen in Figs. 2 and 4, while the line c Y will appear on both sides, as seen in Figs. l, 2, and 4lathe intention being that the line of stitches e shall be upon the inside' of the corset. The space between the line cl and the 5o double edge of the section forms a pocket, f,

into which I place a thin steel or suitable stay, in width substantially that of the. pocket. By stitching th'e fabric staylc-to the one thickness of the-,section I form a pocket for the narrow spring. Then by folding the other thickness over and stitching it at the edge ofthe fabric stay opposite the fold I give to the exterior of the corset the appearance of y a broad stay. The flexible niaterial--such as buckram-hasv suitable stiffness in itself, and in laundering 6o` and starching the corset it takes so much of the starch as to make it a practical stay, so that the light and small stay L in the pocket f serves the purpose of the usual heavy steel stay applied at that point, or in some cases two parallel stays. Because ot' employing the fabric stay c, I am enabled to introduce the eyelets directly through that stay, and the two thicknesses ot' the corset between the pocket f and line of stitches e, as seen in Figs. 1, 2,and 7o et, and the stay affords a strong hold for the eyelets. 4By this construction I produce a back or eyelet stripV or section 'which' firmly and sel curel y holds the eyelets, has the appearance ot'` a broad stay, and yet avoids the employment and expense of heavy steel stays, and without theliabilityof breakingthe back stays, as where the heavy steels are employed.

I claiml. The hereinfdescribed improvement in cor-V `8o sets, consisting of the fabric c, cut to double and forin the rear edge of the backs of the corset, the fabric stay c, placed upon the` part a before doubling, with one edge on the line where the part c is to be doubled, a line ot' stitches, 85 d, run through the stay and the single thickness`of the part a, then the part a doubled or folded over the edge of the fabric stay so stitched, and the two thicknesses stitched together at c over the inner edge of the stay c, 9o

the line ot' stitches tl and the doubled fabric forming a,pocket,f, at the edge of the section, and a narrow stay, h, inserted in said pocket, substantially as described.

2. The herein-described improvementin corsets, consisting ot' the fabric a, cut to doubleand form the rear edge of the backs of the corset, the fabric stay c, placed upon the part a before doubling, with one edge on the'line where the part c is to be doubled, a line of roo stitches, d, run through the stay and the single thickness of the part a, then the part a doubled or folded over the-edge of the fabric stay so stitched, and the two thicknesses stitched to- 5 gether at e over the inner edge of the stay c,

theline of stitches d and the doubled fabricformingafpoekef, at the edge of the section, aud -a narrow stay, h, inserted in said pocket, a

series of eyelets inserted through the two thicknesses and through the fabric stay between the 1o inner 'edge of the said fabric stay and theinuer -etlge of the stay h, substantially as described.

MORRIS P. BRAY.

Witnesses J os, G. EARLE, J. H. SBUMWAY. 

